Forest Cove Diaspora: Building Trust with Our Neighbors

Published: June 16, 2022   |   No Comments  |  Read more

AVLF’s mission is to create safe and stable homes and families by inspiring the fight for equal justice.  We aspired to make long-term commitments to and build trust with neighborhoods where we thought we could help bring more stability, like Forest Cove.

PurSHOEing Justice Welcoming Remarks

Published: February 22, 2017   |   No Comments  |  Read more

Good evening. My name is Michael Lucas and I have the privilege of being the Deputy Director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. Our Safe Families Office is the place where AVLF – through our volunteers – literally saves lives. By watching – and getting more involved in – the amazing work that we do in that program over my seven years at AVLF, I have learned a lot about intimate partner violence. I have learned that it touches everyone.